During this year’s Norwegian Festival of Non-Fiction we are displaying the exhibition, Rivers of Emotion, Bodies of Ore, which is an investigation into how extraction is a phenomenon that is no longer only applicable to fossil fuels and mining, but also the commercialisation of human emotions and behavioural patterns through social media. The curator of the exhibition, Lisa Rosendahl, meets with Kjartan Fløgstad, an author and essayist who has investigated both Norwegian industrial culture and international cultural industry. Together they will look at the changing face of extraction, led by programme curator at Kunsthall Trondheim, Carl Martin Faurby.
Following the conversation, we will launch the Rivers of Emotion, Bodies of Ore exhibition catalogue, published by Uten Tittel and designed by Thomas Nordby / Yokoland. The catalogue contains new essays by Lisa Rosendahl (curator), Mats Ingulstad & Pål Thonstad Sandvik (historians at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Jan M. Padios (University of Maryland, USA), Sean Dockray (one of the exhibited artists) and Johanna Dahlin & Martin Fredriksson (Linköping University). The catalogue is sponsored by Arts Council Norway.
Kjartan Fløgstad is a Norwegian author who has penned novels, poetry, essays, travelogues and novellas, often with a fluctuation in style and tone. Fløgstad has himself been a blue collar worker, and is acutely aware of the history and development of the Norwegian industrial community.
Lisa Rosendahl is a curator and writer who studied art history at Stockholm University, the Courtauld Institute and Goldsmiths College. Rosendahl has been a curator at the Public Art Agency Sweden, director of Iaspis, director of BAC (Baltic Art Center Visby), associate curator at Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, director of exhibitions at Lisson Gallery, London, and acting director of Electra Productions, London. As a freelance curator she has curated exhibitions for Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Malmö Art Museum and INIVA, London. Rosendahl has been engaged as a guest lecturer and advisor at different art academies all over Scandinavia in the past decade. In 2018, she was hired as associate professor of exhibition studies at KHIO/The Art Academy. She is the curator of GIBCA 2019.
This event is part of the Norwegian Festival of Non-fiction’s “Extraction and Exploitation” segment, which also includes “Solidarity: on its way out or in?” and “Sandharpesongar”. Ticket price for the full evening: 80/60.